For this part of the project my most difficult thing to date was sourcing sufficient materials in this projects time frame. I ended up going to two different aluminium suppliers for the correct materials. Luckily both suppliers were located in clayton and were not difficult to visit or select materials.
The next part of prototyping stage was to construct the frame and cross beam rods for the main structure of the product. Involve very accurate hand bending of tubing and angle measurement to get everything to line up correctly. i also on this day cut the centre lengths of tubing for the frame. i cut them all at 370 to make sure when welded to the frame so it would be under the 400x400x400 specifications.
After learning early on that aluminium is apparently the worst material to possible weld ever in existence . i used as much time as possible trying to teach myself how to weld aluminium as good as possible. with assistance from andrew in the workshop. we were able to well the first component of the frame. (the outer shapes.) How ever it became increasingly difficult to get assistance for aluminium welding as the workshop was a very busy place.
(Above is an image of a test i had practice on to help us get the general shape and to get aluminium welding practice.)
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